Jim Shead Waterways Photographer & Writer

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An encyclopedia of the canals and rivers of England and Wales, including historical data, provided by Jim Shead, Waterways Writer and Photographer.

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Great Haywood Marina

If you have been a moorer at Great Haywood Marina do you remember signing a contract (or berthing licence application) that consisted of one sheet of green/blue A4 paper which was signed on the front and had the terms and conditions on the back? I remember signing and returning such a form in 2007 but the marina company say there never was any such document. Please contact me by email if you remember such a form or have any information about this. See more information..

Today's Featured Waterway Photo

Borwick Hall Bridge No 135
For more information see Lancaster Canal.

Featured Pages

Walking the Waterways A new feature for the thousands of people who love to walk the towpaths of our Canals and Rivers and a listing of Waterway Events of 2010 is available. If you are organising a UK canal or river event that you would like added to this list please let me know.

The Boating Listing is bigger as it now includes Broads Authority boats, added in 2009. See the Boat Listing. See also the new Most Popular Boat Names listing, based on the 78,000 boats in the Boat Listing.

Escape from Microsoft - my experiences with Linux.

If you are a newcomer to the subject, or this web site, you may want to start with my Introduction pages. These give an introduction to this website, the UK Waterways System, its history and to inland boating on canals or rivers.

Now it's easier to buy on-line when you

Books, videos, DVDs and links to other canal shopping sites.

To buy photographs of both waterways and other subject types visit www.photo-sales.org.uk . For non-waterway travel photographs see www.jim-shead.net

I am also webmaster for the following waterways sites Railway & Canal Historical Society
IWA Peterborough Branch
The Association of Nene River Clubs

Unfair Marina Terms:
Sign the Petition on the Prime Minister's website
the petition reads "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to refer the question of marina terms and conditions that restrict the sale of boats to the Director General of Fair Trading." click on the text to sign.
For more information see background information..

After just one week this petition went into the top 15% of Number 10 petitions but many more signatures are needed to make it a contender for action.

Quote of the day No 98

Saturday 13 March 2010

I couldn’t believe my little boy was dead. I wouldn’t believe it. They had to prise him out of my arms at the finish. Mr Bloomfield cleaned out a toolchest from the yard and we laid him in that on a little wadded pillow. Mrs Bloomfield offered to have him in her front room but me and Moy-chap couldn’t bear for him to be taken from us just yet. He lay in that chest three days and three nights, red-gold curls, so still, so peaceful, like he was havin a little smile to his-self. I kep lookin, longin for a little tell-tale breath, a little tremor of life to come back.

As soon as the thaw set in the maintenance men turned oop at the yard. The marster-carpenter made a proper little coffin. He were another Mr Gilkes, relationed to the old one wot made Granny Statham’s coffin all those years before. Moy-chap horned it on his shoulder all acraws the snowy fields to the church and we followed. I never shed a tear. I couldn’t. Not until weeks after. We was travellin back from puttin flowers on Mother’s grave at h’Oxford when I seed a new-born baby drownded, cord floatin, in the Cut. There was little wet gold curls at the back of his neck. The tears came floodin then, great big black waves, over and over.

Sheila Stewart - Ramlin Rose : The Boatwomen’s Story

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